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Yitzhak Conforti

Yitzhak Conforti is an Israeli historian and educator and an associate professor of Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University, known for his research on Zionism and Jewish nationalism.

born 1961Research on Zionist historiographyEthno-symbolic study of Jewish nationalismStudies of history and memory

Born: 18 November 1961
Occupation: historian
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan University

Yitzhak Conforti was born in 1961

Yitzhak Conforti was born in Israel on November 18, 1961. He served in the IDF from 1980 to 1984 and is a retired major.

He earned a bachelor's degree in education and Jewish history at the Hebrew University. His master's and doctoral degrees came from Bar-Ilan University, and he spent a year in Boston doing research at Harvard. His doctorate on Zionist historiography and memory, supervised by Moshe Rosman, was approved in 2003.

He taught in high schools and at Beit Berl College, the Hebrew University, Ashkelon Academic College and Western Galilee College. He was a visiting scholar at Oxford in 2005 and later held posts at New York University, the University of Pennsylvania and Brandeis University. Since 2022 he has been an associate professor at Bar-Ilan University.

His research covers Zionist historiography, history and memory, and Jewish nationalism from an ethno-symbolic view. His first book, published in 2006, won the Hecht Prize of the University of Haifa for 2007. In 2019 he published a book on the cultural roots of Zionism. He is married to Hila and lives in Petah Tikva.